Nando's have apologised for any offence caused and claim that they simply asked for her address so they could send her a free bottle of hot sauce.

They told The Telegraph: 'We like to have fun with our customers on Twitter and reward our loyal fans,' they said. 'We wanted to send Elle a bottle of hot sauce in response to her tweet, which is where the reference to 'handling the heat' comes from.

'We would never intentionally offend someone and when we realised we may have done so, deleted the tweet. This is not something we would usually do.'

Too saucy: Elle joked that the Nando's tweets were 'a bit too cheeky' after the exchange

Elle, who tried the hot sauce for the first time, will be sticking to medium chicken in future

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Nando's Twitter account sent flirty messages to a customer asking for her address